a request and a poem

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Hi. I'm looking for poems about not giving up or overcoming obstacles. I desperately need some to motivate me right now. I would really appreciate it.

In turn, a poem:

Clive Barker, “Days of Magic, Nights of War”

I dreamed I spoke in another’s language,
I dreamed I lived in another’s skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger’s kin.
I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator’s name.

I dreamed—and this dream was the finest—
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you.